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Salvage. Wool reclamation. Bales of wool rags, from which the wool is to be reclaimed, come in bales to an Eastern plant from dealers everywhere. Taken from the bales and thrown into this pile, they are passed to rag-picking machines which shred the fabrics as the first step in the reclamation process

Salvage. Wool reclamation. Bales of wool rags, from which the wool is ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Rubber salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. These skilled hands belong to sixty-five-year-old Herman Jagow, whose wood carving skill delighted thousands of children riding the horses of merry-go-rounds. Here he is doing lathe work in landing gear housing. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-g...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces on turret gun mount housings for M-3 tanks are rough planed and finished planed on a fifty inch by fifty inch four-head planer. The job is being done in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out naval sights and plane wing equipment

Conversion. Paper machinery to plant wing parts. All bearing surfaces ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is an old story to this young woman employee of an Eastern hosiery plant which is now forty-percent converted to the manufacture of mosquito netting for the armed forces. These warp holders are used to determine the tensile strength of yarn and to keep it in place during machine operations. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Looks intricate, but this contraption is ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

A black and white photo of a woman working in a factory. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman working in a factory. Office of War...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Printing war ration book 2. Otto Krantz replenishes the glue in the glass cylinders in the collator that supplies the glue for securing the coupon pages

Printing war ration book 2. Otto Krantz replenishes the glue in the gl...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. Chinese Counsul General Lee (left) greets a Chinese seaman of the crew of a British freighter in New York. Lee met the men on arrival and explained the rules under which, for the first time in warring America, they were permitted ashore during their ship's stay in port

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA) volunteer headquarters in Nyack

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Not marbles or thimbles, but row upon row of completed machine gun parts, today's production of an oil-burner factory in upper New York State. Manufacture of these small parts requires top skill, for tolerance of 110,000 of an inch is demanded by U.S. ordnance officers. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Not marbles or thimbles, but row upo...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

A Brooklyn machine manufacturing firm is seeking machine shop facilities for the machining of very large quantities of Navy brass forgings. Item: socket. Material: Navy brass, two and one-half inches by six inches. Tolerances: plus .002, minus .000. Machines needed: turret lathes, number three Barton and Oliver, number four Warner Swasey or one and one-half inch Jones Lamson. Forgings and inside drilling tools will be furnished

A Brooklyn machine manufacturing firm is seeking machine shop faciliti...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Front of establishment. Behind this modest storefront in downtown New York City, workmen are turning out hundreds of small parts for machine guns, aircraft, marine engines and other tools of war--another example of how small manufacturers can share in war work through subcontracting

Front of establishment. Behind this modest storefront in downtown New ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Rubber track cross plates, length thirteen inches

Rubber track cross plates, length thirteen inches

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. Technical experts of a large Eastern silverware manufacturing company inspect a Springfield-type bayonet to be produced for the Army. Conversion to war production in this plant is already well under way. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Technical experts of a large Eastern sil...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Jukebox plant. As indigenous to the American scene as the hamburger stand and Mickey Mouse, juke boxes like this, here being tested. From now on, electrical control instruments, based on the principle of the jukebox selection device, will be produced here for use by Uncle Sam's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. As indigenous to the American scene as the ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Hooks for export packing cases of aircraft engines are bent on this horizontal bulldozer which was formerly used to bend rails for merry-go-rounds to delight the hearts of carefree children. It was thought impossible to convert the machine for this use, but a little thinking and ingenuity solved the problem. The slack was taken out of the bulldozer and it was found to work quite satisfactory as an aid to bending the heavy hooks into shape. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Hooks for export packing cases of ai...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Bales of mosquito netting lie ready to be packed in crates for shipment to ordnance officers throughout the country. Women's hosiery was once the chief product of this Eastern mill which is now forty-percent converted to the production of netting for American troops. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Bales of mosquito netting lie ready to be...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Crated for shipment these shell ejectors for six-inch forty-seven caliber naval guns are a far cry from the peacetime production of the merry-go-round plant in which they were made. These plants have temporarily shelved its production of amusements devices to do its part in the war effort, protecting the right of Americans to enjoy the thrill rides it formerly made. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. Crated for shipment these shell ejec...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. On this assembly line, final touches are put on nearly-completed bomb shackles. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of b...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product of this Eastern factory now undergoing conversion to production of small precision parts for machine guns. This milling machine has not yet been converted to the war effort and is still turning out parts for burners. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product o...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Photo: two gear drives - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Photo: two gear drives - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese seamen on United Nations' vessels may now obtain shore leave in American ports. Heretofore, because of the large number of desertions by Chinese crew members, alien seamen of Chinese nationality have been detained on board when their ships touched American ports. As a result of conferences between representatives of the Chinese Embassy, the Recruitment and Manning Organization of War Shipping Administration, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service of the Department of Justice, Chinese seamen may now be granted shore leave if guarantees are given that they will not desert. Chinese messboy leaving a British ship for his first visit ashore to see his countrymen in America

First Chinese seamen granted shore leave in wartime America. Chinese s...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Sewing leather facing over seam of a coat for the armed forces at the Aero Leather Coat Company Incorporated

Sewing leather facing over seam of a coat for the armed forces at the ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office... More

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured here, is included in the conversion of a jukebox manufacturing company to war production. Control instruments based on the jukebox selection device will be manufactured for America's armed forces. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Production of the drill jig part, pictured ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe used formerly in the manufacture of merry-go-rounds. This machine, along with others in this New York state plant is now turning out bits and pieces for our war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. This is a South Bend swing lathe use...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Peacetime production of this small Eastern manufacturing plant consisted of such objects as the aluminum photograph dryer (upper left), radio dials, and similar articles for civilian use. Its parts for America's fighting planes. Pictures above is one of the owners of the company. He's holding another peacetime product, a radio chassis

Conversion. Frying pans to aircraft parts. Peacetime production of thi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Rotors and blades. A Cleveland manufacturer making aircraft fuel pumps is seeking subcontractors who can furnish steel rotors and rotor blades

Rotors and blades. A Cleveland manufacturer making aircraft fuel pumps...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill press, and arbor press facilities for the manufacture of a five-inch assembly housing

A New York City manufacturer wishes to locate turret lathe, drill pres...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Paper machinery to naval sights. Sight rings and details for open naval sights are inspected in the plant of an Eastern paper machinery manufacturer who is also turning out tank gun mount housings and plane wing equipment

Conversion. Paper machinery to naval sights. Sight rings and details f...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. An American tank on the deck of a cargo ship bound for the fighting fronts with lend-lease weapons. The tank is prevented from shifting at sea by clevises and turnbuckles attached to plates welded to the steel deck

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. An American tank on the deck of a ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Edward L. Gruber or Alfred T. Palmer. Title and other information from caption card and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Offi... More

Photo: aluminum housing - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Photo: aluminum housing - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. An Eastern factory which produces bomb shackles for Uncle Sam's birdmen was once one of the country's best-known manufacturers of table silver. Above is closeup of a shaft assembly in specially made milling jig. Held at left is unmilled shaft while at right are completed shafts in milling jigs. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. An Eastern factory which produces bomb s...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product of this Eastern factory now undergoing conversion to production of small precision parts for machine guns. This machine has been converted to production of gun parts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Oil burners are the normal product o...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. High speed grinding of a bullet punch goes on twenty-two hours a day in an Eastern manufacturing company converted from the manufacture of civilian items to one hundred percent production for war. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. High speed grinding of a bulle...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. While a plant officer looks on, machinist Arthur Greaces operates a Bickford vertical boring machine formerly used in the production of merry-go-rounds, now used for war work. He is machining a sheaf ordered as part of a sub-contract on maritime work. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Peacetime product of an Eastern manufacturing firm which now produces dies for Democracy. Operating under prime and sub-contracts, this firm makes precision tools, brass quadrants, etc., for Uncle Sam's armed forces. No more soft drink dispensers, orange juicers and game boards will be manufactured here until there's no more Axis. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Peacetime product of an Easter...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. This drill press, operated by machinist Mathew Kipa, has been to face milling operations on landing gear housings for airplanes. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands and this machine used to...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this small part for an army machine gun, this worker must achieve tolerance not greater than 110,000 of an inch. This upper New York state factory, which formerly produced oil burners, is under contract for 75,000 small precision parts for the Army. Its employees are super-skilled workmen, many of whom have been with the firm for decades. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Using a micrometer to check this sma...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

A Detroit manufacturer of aircraft engines is seeking automatic screw machine facilities for the manufacture of ninety-six items of steel and bronze aircraft engine hardware in quantities from fourteen thousand to two-hundred thousand and in diameters from one-quarter to one and one-half inches. Three of the items are illustrated. Top left, bolt; top right, retainer; bottom, cylinder head stud

A Detroit manufacturer of aircraft engines is seeking automatic screw ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. In times of peace this milling machine produced some of America's most beautiful silverware, but since December 1941 it has holder forceps, for use by surgeons of the nation's armed forces. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. In times of peace this milling machine p...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Now converted to production of war essentials, this Eastern plant once manufactured such civilian items as this soft drink dispenser, the precision mechanism of which is undergoing inspection by a designer. It was this type of high grade precision workmanship which enabled the company to obtain specialized precision contracts and subcontracts from the government. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Now converted to production of...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible to convert from automobile engine manufacture to production of airplane motors is shown back of a huge automobile factory. A dismantled paint booth (left foreground) is among the scrap. In the background, against the rising glass roofs of the plant, tar-covered sheds house valuable machines which could not be converted, and are being stored for the duration to make room for the new war equipment. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Some of the equipment impossible ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These are landing gear housings for war planes. They are turned out by a New York state plant which formerly made merry-go-rounds and now makes numerous bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These are landing gear housings for ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

An Ohio manufacturer is looking for two and thirteen-sixteenths inch and three and three-sixteenths inch automatic screw machine facilities for the machining of large quantities of steel fuse parts. Item: inner can. Material: cold rolled steel tubing two and thirteen-sixteenths inch diameter by three inches. Tolerances: plus or minus --1. Quantity: five-hundred daily. Machines needed: automatic screw machine two and thirteen-sixteenths inch capacity, drill jig, single spindle tapper. Item: outer can. Material: cold rolled steel tubing three and three-sixteenths inch diameter by eight inches. Tolerances: plus .002 minus .000. Quantity: 500 daily. Machines needed: automatic screw machine, three and three-sixteenths inch capacity, drill jig, tapper, milling machine. A government procurement agency is seeking a contractor with facilities for forging heat treating and machining bulkheads. These parts are twenty-one inches in diamerter by eight inches. Material: steel, alloy CM. Dimensions: twenty-one inches in diameter by eight inches. Tolerances: close. Quantity: 500 to 6000 pieces per month

An Ohio manufacturer is looking for two and thirteen-sixteenths inch a...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Left to right: the buyer Al Gerson is shown handing over purchase price in war bonds to the seller, Frederick G. Zander, as Ben Taft, second from left, auto salvage inspector of the automobile graveyard section and another War Production Board (WPB) official look on. Group of Office of Price Administration (OPA) officials with buyer and seller of 15 buses for scrap metal in a Long Island, New York parking lot

Left to right: the buyer Al Gerson is shown handing over purchase pric...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. Normally used to polish fine silverware, this machine is used in addition to buff delicate surgical instruments which are being produced for Aarmy and Navy physicians as this Eastern factory starts conversion from production of silverware to manufacture of bayonets and surgical instruments. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Normally used to polish fine silverware,...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Painted olive-drab, this oil burner awaits shipment to American armed forces--somewhere in the field. Converted to a large degree to production of precision gun parts, the factory which manufactures these oil burners ships most of them either to the Army or abroad under lend-lease contracts. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Painted olive-drab, this oil burner ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Grinding aircraft parts (one with inverted lamp shade). Tiny parts for aircraft are here being surface ground by a small machine shop in New York City whose peacetime products are industrial saws and knives. The same skill and machinery needed to produce saws and knives is thus being turned to the job of winning the war

Grinding aircraft parts (one with inverted lamp shade). Tiny parts for...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Clipping excess wool along seam edge

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Clipping excess wool along seam edge

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office... More

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile production, these dust pipes, ventilators of spray booths and other relics of pre-war days are relegated to the dump heap, useless now that the plant is one hundred percent converted to production of airplane motors. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. Once vital to automobile producti...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Machining of a fixture to be used on milling machines which have been converted from production of oil burners to the manufacture of small precision parts for machine guns. Location: a factory in upper New York State. Reif-Rexoil Company, Buffalo, New York

Oil burners to machine gun parts. Machining of a fixture to be used on...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

A black and white photo of a man holding an umbrella. Office of War Information Photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding an umbrella. Office of War In...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Photo: stainless steel shaft - safety film negatives, Library of Congress

Photo: stainless steel shaft - safety film negatives, Library of Congr...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Solonoid selectors, devices which play the right record for you on the jukebox are assembled by young girls working in a large East coast plant. After the last jukeboxes rolled off the assembly line, this company will use the same machines and operations to manufacture electrical control devices for the Army and the Navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. Solonoid selectors, devices which play the ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Finishing a navigator window frame for a bombing plane in the plant of an Eastern manufacturer of metal door and window screens

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Finishing a navigator win...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. These machines are working for Uncle Sam instead of manufacturing such civilian items as soft drink dispensers and game boards. Inspecting operation of a tool room lathe are officials of this company which is producing tools for cartridge manufacture, brass quadrants and other war essentials. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. These machines are working for...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Sewing and turning cuff on trouser leg

Best Coat and Apron Manufacturing Company. Sewing and turning cuff on ...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Grinding bullet dies. Here, in the shop of a small manufacturer of saws and knives in downtown New York City, a workman grinds bullet dies to close tolerances on a special surface grinding machine. This fully converted shop is carrying out heat treating, straightening and surface grinding work on hundreds of small ordnance, aircraft and other parts, on a subcontract basis

Grinding bullet dies. Here, in the shop of a small manufacturer of saw...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Fat salvage campaign

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteer checking and posting ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Cases of mosquito netting stand ready for shipment to ordnance officers throughout the country. Women's hosiery was once the chief product of the Eastern mill which is now forty percent converted to production of netting for American troops. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Cases of mosquito netting stand ready for...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The woodcarving skill of those capable hands has delighted thousands of children riding the horses of merry-go-rounds. Their skill has now been diverted for the duration to lathe work on landing gear housings for the deadly Airacobra. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. The woodcarving skill of those capab...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversion of this automobile factory to production of airplane engines, the gigantic task of remodelling old machinery, removal of old and installation of new equipment, and extensive rebuilding of the plant itself was formidable--but speedy. Under terms of its contract, production was not scheduled until October, but Herulean efforts of management and labor reduced this to early spring of this year. Carloads of scrap material torn out of the plant are shown here at a siding back of the factory. Chevrolet, Buffalo, New York

Auto conversion to airplane engines. With one hundred percent conversi...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The vice-president of an Eastern manufacturing company now producing war essentials on prime and subcontracts, tests the hardness of steel in a chamber gauge, essential for the manufacture of small arms ammunition. These gauges are made of special alloys tougher and harder than the toughest and hardest steel. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. The vice-president of an Easte...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

A couple of men working on a machine. Office of War Information Photograph

A couple of men working on a machine. Office of War Information Photog...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of bomb shackles from silver tableware, employees of an Eastern plant are helping America deal death to the Axis. Reaming operations on shackle frames are shown above. Air Corps regulations demand extremely fine tolerance. Oneida Ltd., Oneida, New York

Conversion. Silverware plant. Undergoing conversion to production of b...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Rex Manufacturing Company, New Rochelle, New York. Stamping the seal of the United States on shells for brass buttons

Conversion. Compacts to ordnance. Rex Manufacturing Company, New Roche...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical skill in operating this 130-ton capacity die stamping press will soon be applied to far more important production. This employee of an Eastern jukebox manufacturing concern is shown stamping out mounting frames for jukeboxes. When the boxes have been completed, this company will devote a large percentage of its time and space to production of electrical devices to be used by the Army and Navy. Rudolph Wurlitzer, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Jukebox plant. It's all for fun now, but his technical ski...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. These husky workers used to manufacture triple-sheer hosiery for Miss America. Today they're working for their Uncle Sam servicing mesh gears on a loom now producing mosquito netting for the Army and Navy. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. These husky workers used to manufacture t...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United State... More

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Benjamin Lapides (right) and his father Leon Lapides, owners of the firm shown inspecting the line of automobile accessories made by the firm prior to ninety percent conversion to war production

Conversion (auto accessory plant). Benjamin Lapides (right) and his fa...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Experience in gas-welding light metal frames for an Eastern window screen manufacturer was an valuable asset to many employees when the company began producing navigator windows for American bombers

Conversion. Metal screens to bomber windows. Experience in gas-welding...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Production. Women precision drill operators. A precision drilling operation is performed by a young woman worker in an Eastern plant now producing steel tank windows, equipment for the U.S. Signal Corps, and other war essentials. Wallace and Tillman Company, New York

Production. Women precision drill operators. A precision drilling oper...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Fat salvage campaign

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Closeup of products now manufactured by an Eastern plant which once made such civilian items as orange juice squeezers, game boards, etc. These objects are far more vital to Uncle Sam. All are different aspects of one production job: a master chamber gauge, a bullet die, and 3-caliber cartridge. Although this company does not actually make cartridges, they produce the gauge and dies essential to cartridge production. Bristol and Martin Company, New York, New York

Conversion. Soft drink dispenser plant. Closeup of products now manufa...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Metal salvage operation

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration go these figures for merry-go-rounds, peacetime product of this New York state plant, now turning out bits and pieces for the war program. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. In storage for the duration go these...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. More essential to America's war effort than this attractive nightgown are millions of yards of mosquito netting now being made by an Eastern mill. Conversion of the plant from manufacture of hosiery and gloves to mosquito netting for the Army and Navy involved changing the pattern cam and driving gears on a Tricot-warp-a knit machine. Van Raalte Company

Conversion. Hosiery factory. More essential to America's war effort th...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-go-rounds to gladden the hearts of the nation's children. The carrousel plant in which they work is now engaged in producing war parts on subcontracts from army and navy contractors. Above is a completed shell ejector getting its final testing. The brass bottom of a navy shell is applied on the testing stand, with the spring mechanism which actually ejects the shell getting the primary test. Spillman Engineering Company, North Tonawanda, New York

Conversion. Merry-go-round plant. These hands used to turn out merry-g...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

Lend-lease shipments from the United States

Lend-lease shipments from the United States

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Edward L. Gruber or Alfred T. Palmer. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Informa... More

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Lend-lease supplies shipped to United Nations include more than planes, tanks and guns. Soldiers and civilians in countries threatended by the Axis countries must have food. Allied war factories need raw materials and machine tools. Longshoremen are accustomed to stacking bags of flour for shipment along with weapons

How lend-lease strikes at the Axis. Lend-lease supplies shipped to Uni...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Photographed by Edward L. Gruber or Alfred T. Palmer. Title and other information from caption card and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Offi... More

Gear pinion and segment for plane instrument

Gear pinion and segment for plane instrument

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Wash... More

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Pattern cutting

Aero Leather Coat Company, Inc. Pattern cutting

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. More informat... More

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Permalon solution, a chemical mixture used on mosquito netting is mixed by a worker in a large Eastern mill which formerly made women's stockings. This chemical solution stiffens the netting and prevents subsequent shrinkage, so that the hardest tropical downpour which American armed forces may endure will not alter the netting

Conversion. Hosiery factory. Permalon solution, a chemical mixture use...

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches). Annotation on negative. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. W... More

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating to the war effort. Woman volunteers who check and post ceiling prices for the U.S. Office of Price Administration (OPA)

New York (and vicinity), New York. Miscellaneous photograph relating t...

Annotation on negative or original negative jacket. Title and other information from lot catalog card. Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944. M... More

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